News Release

February 21, 2007
 

Poet Alice Notley to Give Reading as Part of the Boise State MFA Reading Series

Noted poet Alice Notley will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Boise State University Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room. Notley’s reading is free and open to the public, presented as part of the Boise State MFA Reading Series.

Notley’s poetry often demonstrates a continuing fascination with deserts, and with her birthplace, Arizona. She has said that her speech is the voice of “the new wife, and the new mother” in her own time, but that her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platform of social reform.

Notley’s works include “Disobedience,” “Mysteries of Small Houses,” “The Descent of Alette,” “Parts of a Wedding,” “Margaret and Dusty,” “Sorrento,” and many more. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001 she received an Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelly Memorial Award.

Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally known authors and poets to the Boise State Campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Michael Palmer, Clayton Eshleman, Joy Williams, and Denis Johnson.

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Contact: Dave Nicholas, MFA Reading Series, davidnicholas@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, Communications and Marketing, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Tuesday, February 27, 2007